chapter four and five

By God that chapter was tense. The sheer plan of Dracula unravelling before the readers eyes makes us in equal shock with poor John. At this point in time i truly believe that John has not got a hope in hell and hell on earth is most surely Dracula's castle. In honesty i felt the whole hypnotising thing was not particularly necessary because it didn't really have a point in the novel for me. Although it being fantastically brilliant in lexical choices and descriptive writing it simply didn't have a point to the flow of the novel for me.
The first time John goes into Dracula's room i felt that i couldn't read on because it seemed so intense at the time. Having read on i was greeted with an anticlimax with the only shocking sight being that of Dracula sleeping.
The next part is what really did it for me because Dracula talks of John leaving the next day. John tests him saying he wants to leave now and Dracula calls his bluff opening the doors to his castle. At this point i thought that suddenly there would be salvation but standing at the doorway was wolves. The end was so near i could taste, feeling how John felt at the same time which for me makes a great novel that not only can you get into a book but you can also feel what the character is feeling as though you are the character yourself. John waits another night but the next day tries to kill Dracula with a spade, suggesting to me that he has hit the height of his desperation to try and kill a man with obvious supernatural abilities with a spade!
Finally John decides to cut his losses and attempts to escape saying goodbye in his diary. This frustrated me i wanted him to keep writing, i wanted to know what happened to him but no, instead i am greeted with a letter to Lucy from John's girl Mina.
Now to be honest this further extended my frustration because i don't want to know about women writing each other letters i want to know what the nutter with the red eyes is going to do about his prisoner escaping. I felt like simply stopping reading cause i found these letters dull and pointless except Lucy's three proposals because i kept thinking one of the men that proposed to her could have been Dracula.
After these dull letters I'm given confusing passages that at first i could not understand but after reading on the fog had cleared and i know that one of the men is the asylum doctor that proposed to Lucy and the other is Lucy's actual husband.
So far i don't see where this is going and to be honest i don't really want to know because all i cared about was John's troubles and not anyone Else's.